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‖ goûter|gute| [Fr., f. goûter to taste.] A light afternoon repast; five-o'clock tea.
1792Wynne Diaries 16 July (1935) I. 158 When you go anywhere you are shure to find a tea and a good gouté prepared. 1794Ibid. 28 Apr. 149 We went to a Gouter at Thiergarten. c1854C. Brontë Professor (1857) i. viii. 136 My ‘gouter’ (a meal which answers to our English ‘tea’). 1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Sept. 2/1 At five o'clock we return home to a sort of afternoon tea; or goûter,..wines, cakes, and fruit being served, as well as tea. 1958R. Godden Greengage Summer iv. 37 ‘There wasn't any tea,’ said Vicky; we had not learned about the French children's goûter yet. |